At least seven students were killed and scores more wounded today in a bomb attack on a Quran study class at a religious school in northwestern Pakistan, officials say.
More than 60 people had been mid-lesson when the explosion tore through the madrassa in Peshawar, about 170 kilometers (around 100 miles) west of Islamabad, said Waqar Azim, a senior police official says.
“The blast took place in a seminary during a Quran class. Someone took a bag inside the seminary,” Azim tells AFP.
He adds that the person who had brought in the bag left the lecture hall before the blast at the Jamia Zuberia seminary.
Rescue workers collect remains at the site of a blast in a religious school in Peshawar on October 27, 2020. (Abdul MAJEED / AFP)
Mohammad Ali Gandapur, another senior police official, says at least seven people were killed with more than 50 wounded.
The death toll is confirmed by Mohammad Asim Khan, a spokesman at a local hospital, who tells AFP that seven bodies and 70 wounded people had been taken to the facility.
“Most of those killed and injured were hit by ball bearings and some were badly burnt,” he said.
All of the dead were men aged between 20 and 40, he says. Teachers and boys as young as 7 are among the wounded.
— AFP
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